Zingiber, 'ircy&suv.iA moscstiwa-. $5 



A iialive of the foreits of Rohikundy from tlience Cclonel Thomat 

 iiurdwicke senJ: plants to the Botanic Garden, undex- the vernacular 

 name Jimglee Adriik. Here it flowers during the rains ; and th« 

 seeds ripen in September and October. 



Root ccuiposed ot miiuy, long peduncled^ oval, smooth, pale-co» 

 loured, insipid, vvaterj tubers, issuing from the base and sides of 

 tijc bulb, and palmate tubers, which are of a pale yellow colour, 

 and somewhut spicy taste. — Stem% erect, round, enveloped in the 

 ihruths of the leaves, which are often a little hairy ; height of the 

 vl)ole plant when in blossom, from two to three feet. — Leaver sub- 

 bi*'uriv)u3, rdterna^e, sessile on their sheaths^ narrow-lanceolate, acut*', 

 . !00th abo-'^, a little hairy underneath, about twelve inches long 

 an<l about two bioad. — '^pik? terminal, sessile on the mouth of the 

 shcaihs of the ju]'erior leaves, lintar-oblonp;, somewhat strobili- 

 form, inauy-flowered. — ■ Tlcnen sessile, large, pure yellow iu every 

 part. — Brtictes'm pairs, one-flowered, peimanent -^exterior lanceolate, 

 concave, erect, longer than the tube of the coroL Inner ov^Xtj shor- 

 ter, iinnicdiately enveloping the «:erin, c^lyx. and nearly the whole of 

 the tube of the corol. — Fcriaiith superior, one-leaved, about hialf 

 tin' ienp;th of the tube of the corol, membranaceous, white, t%vo or 

 tiirce-tcothed. — Corel. Tube cylindric, nairov.-. hip Vv'iih two, oblcng, 

 very distinct, expanding-, lateral lobes ; middle lobe very large, and 

 noarlv round. Anther with a verv lonjr curved beak. — Sti^yma (as in 

 most plants of the order), funnel-shaped, with ciliate margins. — hec- 

 tf/rini fiCiiles (of Konig), or hornlet conical. — Capsule oval, three-sid- 

 ed, with the angles rounded^ pretty smooth, size of a small olive, 

 three- celled, three- valved ; each cell containing several, black, shin- 

 ing seeds, enveloped in a deeply jagged, white mil.— Per ispenn con- 

 form to the lower haif of the seed which it occupies, pure wliite, carti> 

 laginous. Vitelhts above the perisperm, occupving nearly the upper 

 half of the seed, — Embryo vertical, passing through the centre of both 

 perisperm and vitellus, sub-cylindric, both ends obtuse, &c. in every 



-pect so exactly like Z. Cussunmnarj that the same drawings and 

 iicscriptit ii )u:?.y v ell serve for both. 



